Ryan and Blue - Erosion Challenge

Destroyed in seconds!

For our erosion challenge we built a Lego block house that looked a bit like a castle, but it looked more like a big square of blocks. We put bark around the outside of our house and a bunch of sticks crossed over diagonally underneath our house so it would hold the house up. Unfortunately our house didn't stay in place.

Blue and Ryan working hard to design a sand hill.

The old "thumbs up for finally finishing building

This is our house after the sprinkle.

This is what our house looked like after the event...knocked off the top of the hill.

If we did this challenge again this is what we would do differently: 1) Make the sand hill wider so the house would stay on the top.
2) We would use more pinecones to surround the house or use a stick tee pee to hold the house in place.
3) We stuck sticks into the hill to make it strong but we would bigger sticks and have them on the bottom of the house.

We had lots of fun doing this challenge in the sandpit and we learnt alot about erosion.

By Ryan and Blue

Signatures

This morning when I had a  bath, I refused to wash my arm and took great care not to get it wet. My arm is covered from wrist to elbow in signatures from the Otago rugby players that visited our school. Some children got to tackle the rugby players. Seth McKeay managed to bowl one of the rugby players over.  I hope they come again this year.

By Blue

Blue coming to my house

On Sunday, Blue came to my house. We made a big grass wall and smashed it with my little dump truck. When we did that the dump truck flipped and rolled over. Then we went to the school to play with our bikes for 30 minutes. Half an hour later we went home and dropped a plastic man called Steve out the window up the stairs. Then Blue went home. It was fun.                

By Nathan 8.8.13                                    J

Blue coming to my house

Blue coming to my house

On Sunday, Blue came to my house. We made a big grass wall and smashed it with my little dump truck. When we did that the dump truck flipped and rolled over. Then we went to the school to play with our bikes for 30 minutes. Half an hour later we went home and dropped a plastic man called Steve out the window up the stairs. Then Blue went home. It  was fun.             

By Nathan 8.8.13                                    

Jacks Birthday Party

In ten days time I am going to Jacks birthday party.

We are going to Moana Pool.

I cannot wait until Jacks birthday.

If we are not going to Moana Pool, I will take my BMX to his house.

I will get him a bla bla bla.....for his present. 

It is now nine more days until his birthday.

It will be fun.

Not much

Not much

Well, there is nothing much happening in my world right now. Things are quiet in my house. All that happens is that mum goes to work every day and and we go to school but I’m looking forward to the holidays when I get to do nothing.

Blue 12.7.13

My new bike

My new bike 

Yesterday after school, my twin sister, Stevie, and I went to Wiremu’s house. We all went up to the school to play on the new bikes that mum got us for our birthday. Our birthday is on May the 12^th but we had to wait a week for our bikes to arrive. I chose my bike from the Warehouse and Stevie chose hers from K-mart. My bike is a stunt BMX, coloured highlighter green and white. I liked it instantly.  I hope to learn heaps of new tricks and become the best BMX rider in the world. I will have to practise every day after school.  

When we all went up to school together Wiremu did not take his bike. He just went on my pegs. We were like a stunt riding double act.   It was really cool! 

By Blue 12.6.10

Tornados in a bottle

 Rowan and Wiremu constructing their Tornado Bottle.

 Our experiment didn't work the first time because we filled the bottle up too much and didn't spin the water inside to start a tornado spinning. (Holly and Claudia)

 If you look closely you can see the tornado funnel inside the bottle spinning around. (Nathan and Rowan)

 I enjoyed doing the experiment, we coloured our water blue with dye, it took me a couple of goes to get it right and get the tornado going. (Wiremu)

 Why did we do this experiment?  We did this so we could see how air moves during a tornado and learn about wind currents. It was really fun watching the tornado in a bottle. (Nathan)